Impact of biomass-decay terms on the simulation of pulsed bioremediation

Ground Water

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 254-263

  Cirpka, Olaf A ^a   Kitanidis, Peter K ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS CONVERSION; BIOREMEDIATION; HOMOGENIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; OXYGENATION; SIMULATION MODEL; SIMULATION; SORPTION;

BIOREMEDIATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECAY (ORGANIC); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; OXYGEN;

BIOMASS GROWTH; CHROMATOGRAPHIC EFFECT; HIGHER OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; MINIMAL JOINT EXPOSURE TIME; MULTIMODAL DISTRIBUTION;

BIOMASS;

BIOMASS; BIOREMEDIATION; GROUNDWATER; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 0034161421     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2000.tb00337.x     Document Type: Article

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